Chiara Valerio (Formia, ) is an Italian author and essayist.

Biography

Chiara Valerio was born in

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(in the

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region) in 1978 and spent her childhood and youth in Scauri (also in Lazio). She has obtained a PhD in Mathematics at the

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. She currently lives in Rome. She works as editor for the Italian magazine ''Nuovi Argomenti'' and has contributed to the literary blog ''Nazione Indiana''. She has also written for the radio, as well as theatre pieces, and she has worked with the newspapers Il Sole 24 ORE and

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and with the cultural broadcasting ''Pane quotidiano'' on the Italian national television channel

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. She has directed the series "narrativa.it" for the publishing house nottetempo, which is dedicated to today's Italian fiction. Together with Anna Antonelli, Fabiana Carobolante and Lorenzo Pavolini, she curates the radio broadcast "Ad alta voce" on

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. On

she is a radio host on "L'Isola Deserta". She participated in the writing of the main character of

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's film Mia Madre, together with Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella and Gaia Manzini, as well as in that of

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's film Tenderness, together with Gianni Amelio and Alberto Taraglio. She currently works as editor in chief for the section dedicated to Italian narrative of the publishing house

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, she writes for the Italian newspaper

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, for Vanity Fair, for the weekly publication ''L'Espresso'', and for the monthly publication ''Amica''. In October 2016, she was named cultural director for "Tempo di libri", the newly created

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book fair.

Awards

In 2007, the literature festival of the city of

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, Festivaletteratura, chose Chiara Valerio as the Italian author for "Yound Writings 2007". In 2014, she won the award "Premio Fiesole Narrativa Under 40" with her book ''Almanacco del giorno prima''.

Works

* ''A complicare le cose'', Roma, Robin, 2003, * ''Fermati un minuto a salutare'', Roma, Robin, 2006 * ''Ognuno sta solo'', Roma, Perrone, 2007, * ''Nessuna scuola mi consola'', Roma, Nottetempo 2009, * ''Spiaggia libera tutti'', Roma, Bari, Laterza, 2010, * ''La gioia piccola d'esser quasi salvi'', Roma, Nottetempo 2009, * ''Almanacco del giorno prima'', Torino, Einaudi, 2014, * ''Storia umana della matematica'', Torino, Einaudi, 2016, * ''Il cuore non si vede'', Torino, Einaudi, 2019,

Translations and curatorships

* Virginia Woolf, ''Flush'', Roma, Nottetempo, 2012, * Virginia Woolf, ''Freshwater'', Roma, Nottetempo, 2013, * Virginia Woolf, ''Tra un atto e l'altro'', Roma, Nottetempo, 2015,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valerio, Chiara 1978 births Living people Italian women writers University of Naples Federico II alumni